My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is hell.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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